Australia’s Test skipper Pat Cummins is unable to comprehend the rationale that led to the International Cricket Council (ICC) denying Usman Khawaja permission to sport a “dove carrying an olive branch in its beak” logo on his footwear and bat through the Boxing Day Test in opposition to Pakistan on the MCG.
After not being allowed to put on the footwear that displayed “All lives are equal” handwritten message through the first Test in Perth, Khawaja sported a black armband on the sector and was reprimanded by the apex cricketing governing physique following the conclusion of the sport.
Dejected with the identical, Khawaja positioned a request to use a “dove carrying an olive branch in its beak” logo on his footwear and bat through the forthcoming 2nd Test however the ICC has but once more denied him permission.
Notably, the ICC’s ruling has caught the eye of Cummins and he’s taken abruptly. The Australian captain in contrast the image requested by Khawaja to the eagle sticker that their teammate Marnus Labuschagne makes use of on the again of his bats which represents a verse from the holy bible.
The logo that Khawaja requested to use is related to Article One of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
Hence, Cummins is perplexed as to why the ICC is giving a inexperienced sign to a logo that shows a non secular message and elevating a crimson flag to the opposite which stands for a humanitarian trigger.
“Not really, no – I don’t know the ins and outs of the application, but I think it is pretty vanilla, a dove,” Cummins was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo on Christmas Day.
“We actually assist Uzzy, I feel he is standing up for what he believes and I feel he is doing it actually respectfully.
“All lives are equal and I don’t think that’s very offensive, and I’d say the same about the dove. That’s Uzzy. He can hold his head high the way he’s gone about it, but there’s rules in place, so I believe the ICC have said they’re not going to approve that. They make up the rules and you’ve got to accept it,” he added.
